English-French translations for self-styled

• autoproclamé
  Mais ce serait trop simple pour les générations de "pères de l'Europe" autoproclamés. That would be too simple, however, for the generations of self-styled 'fathers of Europe'.
  Ces partisans autoproclamés de la guerre sainte ont d'autres victimes: les minorités religieuses et ethniques, les personnes qui s'engagent politiquement, et les intellectuels. These self-styled holy wars have further victims: religious and ethnic minorities, the politically active and intellectuals.
• soi-disant
  Cette position, qui est celle de gouvernements soi-disant responsables, nous paraît totalement irréaliste. This position, adopted by self-styled responsible governments, appears to us totally unrealistic.
  Pensons-nous vraiment qu'il n'y a aucun soi-disant sage parmi nous qui pense qu'il sait mieux que tout le monde ce dont les autres nations ont besoin? Do we really believe that there are no self-styled sages amongst us who think they know what other nations need better than those nations themselves?
  Ce soi-disant gouvernement supranational grandiose finance ceux qui ont élu des terroristes du Hamas et menace aujourd’hui de fermer les chantiers navals polonais. This grandiose, self-styled supranational government finances the people who voted in Hamas terrorists and now threatens Polish shipyards with closure.

Definition of self-styled

• Claimed by the recipient, as a title one gave to oneself

Examples

• This self-styled king of the hill must prove himself before the title has any worth

Related words

• self-seeker
• self-seeking
• self-service
• self-sufficient
• self-sufficiency
• self-satisfied
• self-sustaining
• self-satisfaction
• self-sealing
• self-serving